CARAVANSARY

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 4:39 pm

oscillator wrote:"Circuit Chautauqua is among the most significant and most often overlooked influences in early twentieth-century United States history. In the years before radio and television, hundreds of millions of people in thousands of rural communities learned about the great issues of their age and enjoyed entertainment from around the world without traveling further than their own towns' Main Street." - from Library of Congress archives

chataquaBRC2014.jpg

HUH?

FIGJAM · Post by **FIGJAM** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 4:42 pm

I predict that a lot of visitors to the playa this year will be from Djelibeybi!!!

oscillator · Post by **oscillator** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 5:13 pm

"What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua...that's the only name I can think of for it...like the traveling tent-show Chautauquas that used to move across America, this America, the one that we are now in, an old-time series of popular talks intended to edify and entertain, improve the mind and bring culture and enlightenment to the ears and thoughts of the hearer." - Robert Pirsig from "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

The original proposed 2014 theme was 'Silk Road' -edited for obvious contemporary cultural reasons. The change to "Caravansary" is a good one and made me think of this passage from Pirsig's classic book on values.

unjonharley wrote:
oscillator wrote:"Circuit Chautauqua is among the most significant and most often overlooked influences in early twentieth-century United States history. In the years before radio and television, hundreds of millions of people in thousands of rural communities learned about the great issues of their age and enjoyed entertainment from around the world without traveling further than their own towns' Main Street." - from Library of Congress archives

chataquaBRC2014.jpg
HUH?

Sunbeam56 · Post by **Sunbeam56** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 6:34 pm

I finally read "Caravans" by James Michener.
According to this author, the caravanserai was a semi-sanctified place of peace. It wasn't good form to kill, or steal from others who were also seeking sanctuary at a caravanserai, which was a place of refuge from the desert.

That kinda resonates. Isn't the burn a refuge from the intolerance of defaultia?

Captain Goddammit · Post by **Captain Goddammit** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 6:52 pm

TT120 wrote:Thanks Captain! That made me laugh..... Cooter cleavage....LOLOLOL

There's a lot of great euphemisms in there but they apparently couldn't work "meat curtains" into it...

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 7:07 pm

oscillator wrote:

The original proposed 2014 theme was 'Silk Road' -edited for obvious contemporary cultural reasons. The change to "Caravansary" is a good one and made me think of this passage from Pirsig's classic book on values.

How do you know the theme was Silk Road at one time???

Cultural correctness??

The theme is Caravansary.. A fucking long haul camel train truck stop in a desert..

Then you come in pole vaulting over mouse crap

Elliot · Post by **Elliot** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 7:46 pm

Sunbeam56 wrote:I finally read "Caravans" by James Michener.
According to this author, the caravanserai was a semi-sanctified place of peace. It wasn't good form to kill, or steal from others who were also seeking sanctuary at a caravanserai, which was a place of refuge from the desert.

That kinda resonates. Isn't the burn a refuge from the intolerance of defaultia?

Small world. I'm re-reading it, and I read that passage yesterday:

It was a rule of the desert that whoever succeeded in entering a serai was safe for the night, no matter what antagonist he encountered inside, and there must have been many stirring tales of blood enemies who shared sanctuary here under unexpected circumstances.

So now I need to find a blood enemy.

BBadger · Post by **BBadger** » Sun Jan 26, 2014 11:15 pm

Sunbeam56 wrote:I finally read "Caravans" by James Michener.
According to this author, the caravanserai was a semi-sanctified place of peace. It wasn't good form to kill, or steal from others who were also seeking sanctuary at a caravanserai, which was a place of refuge from the desert.

To violate that sanctuary is the true sodomy.

remi · Post by **remi** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 7:59 am

This is only going to be my second burn.. but I feel as I have been screwed with the themes. First year I attend is 2012 with Fertility 2.0.. and now this? Bahumbug!

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 8:01 am

yes, it's all about you...

fucking canadians.....say you're sorry and move along, canucky.

Elliot · Post by **Elliot** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 8:05 am

Remi, didn't you notice that few participants actually pay attention to the Theme? I view it as a suggestion for folks who fail to come up with their own idea. No worries.

^Rhino! · Post by **^Rhino!** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 8:16 am

Simon of the Playa wrote:yes, it's all about you...

fucking canadians.....say you're sorry and move along, canucky.

Simon, how about this moniker: Canucktard.

remi · Post by **remi** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 8:42 am

Martiansky wrote:I loved the spaceship design last year. It was fun being able to climb up into and walk around in and then take a slide down.
Doesnt look like there will be interior access to this one.
Wonder how they will keep it stable in high winds?

I like the theme though.

The fact that "Its massive torso will evoke a tiered pagoda" leads me to believe there should be some sort of tower inside of the torso that one might be able to climb into.. (kinda like the Trojan horse from a couple years ago.) Either way, the idea of the man coming straight out of the dirt is neat. I didn't spend much time inside/under the man anyways. Just long enough to snap a couple photo's of his ball sack.

remi · Post by **remi** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 8:43 am

Simon of the Playa wrote:yes, it's all about you...

fucking canadians.....say you're sorry and move along, canucky.

Don't you know you at least need to step on my foot to get an apology. 'Merica!

remi · Post by **remi** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 8:48 am

Elliot wrote:Remi, didn't you notice that few participants actually pay attention to the Theme? I view it as a suggestion for folks who fail to come up with their own idea. No worries.

I just thought that was because the theme was recycled the year I went, and seemed to get a negative review from the burner community... perhaps that was the reason people weren't paying attention to it.. but if it's common for people to ignore the theme, then I don't even know why I'm visiting this thread in the first place.

I'll stick to my "event tickets" and "preparation" threads from now on.

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 9:18 am

remi wrote:This is only going to be my second burn.. but I feel as I have been screwed with the themes. First year I attend is 2012 with Fertility 2.0.. and now this? Bahumbug!

Wow, you missed all the COOL THEMES! Sucks to be you.

remi · Post by **remi** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 10:07 am

Ugly Dougly wrote:
remi wrote:This is only going to be my second burn.. but I feel as I have been screwed with the themes. First year I attend is 2012 with Fertility 2.0.. and now this? Bahumbug!
Wow, you missed all the COOL THEMES! Sucks to be you.

Thank you for your heartfelt condolences. You are a gentleman and a scholar.

H.G.Crosby · Post by **H.G.Crosby** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 10:07 am

something pronounceable would be nice, but hey, whatevs...

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 10:08 am

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Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 10:10 am

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So now you're set, habibi.

Elliot · Post by **Elliot** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 10:29 am

H.G.Crosby wrote:something pronounceable would be nice, but hey, whatevs...

Which reminds me.... How is it correctly pronounced? CAR-avan-sery? Cara-van-SERY? Cara-VAN-sery? Cara-van-ser-Y? Or what?

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 10:33 am

Elliot wrote:
H.G.Crosby wrote:something pronounceable would be nice, but hey, whatevs...
Which reminds me.... How is it correctly pronounced? CAR-avan-sery? Cara-van-SERY? Cara-VAN-sery? Cara-van-ser-Y? Or what?

sary

Elliot · Post by **Elliot** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 10:55 am

I keep mixing up the spellings -- ...sary and ...serai. The ...serai seems to appear more often in literature.

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 11:26 am

Elliot wrote:I keep mixing up the spellings -- ...sary and ...serai. The ...serai seems to appear more often in literature.

serai is a sanctuary.. as in James Micheners novel..

sary is a long haul caravan truck stop in the desert..

Elliot · Post by **Elliot** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 11:49 am

With some overlap, I would expect?

TT120 · Post by **TT120** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 12:08 pm

CAN versary

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 12:13 pm

Elliot, I dreamed of a facade on the front of you repair area..

It white white with an arabian style archway.. The opening was real large and from top of the shade to the ground..

Elliot · Post by **Elliot** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 12:22 pm

unjonharley wrote:Elliot, I dreamed of a facade on the front of you repair area..

It white white with an arabian style archway. The opening was real large and from top of the shade to the ground..

Can you draw it? I do want to step up the camp facade.
Maybe something like one of the "buildings" on the KazBus MV?

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 12:45 pm

I'm not smart enough to post pictures..

Ya, the second from the right on the Kazbus drawing..

It would (start) by looking like a keyhole..

I Googled arabian archways then hit (google) image's..

Maybe some one else can jump in here with idea..

remi · Post by **remi** » Mon Jan 27, 2014 1:16 pm

Ugly Dougly wrote:
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So now you're set, habibi.

I was wearing one of those scarves at Holy Ship and someone came up to me and showed me how to tie it this way. Legit.

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